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Sonic Acts, the Glossary

Sonic Acts is an interdisciplinary arts organisation for the research, development and production of works at the intersection of art, science and theory. Sonic Acts is also a leading platform for international projects, research and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks, often working together with local and international partner organisations such as independent and institutional cultural incubators, universities and kindred festivals.^[1]

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1994 establishments in the Netherlands
Art festivals in the Netherlands
Events in Amsterdam
New media art festivals

Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the name for a proposed geological epoch, dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth up to the present day.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Autechre

Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both from Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

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B. J. Nilsen

Benny Jonas Nilsen (born 1975), alias BJ Nilsen, BJNilsen, and Hazard, is a Swedish sound artist based in Amsterdam.

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Beatriz Ferreyra

Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer.

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Benjamin H. Bratton

Benjamin H. Bratton (born 1968) is an American Philosopher of Technology known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, artificial intelligence, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms "planetary scale computation".

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Breakcore

Breakcore is a style and microgenre of electronic dance music that emerged from jungle, hardcore, and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s.

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Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Carl Michael von Hausswolff (born 1956) is a composer, visual artist, and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Chris Watson

John Christian Watson (born Johan Cristian Tanck; 9 April 186718 November 1941) was an Australian politician who served as the third prime minister of Australia from 27 April to 18 August 1904.

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Christina Vantzou

Christina Vantzou is a Kansas City, Missouri-born composer and filmmaker of Greek descent based in Brussels, Belgium.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Computer art

Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork.

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Cosmology

Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.

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Crack (magazine)

Crack is a monthly independent music and culture magazine distributed across Europe.

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Creative Europe

Creative Europe is a funding programme established by the European Union to support the cultural, creative, and audiovisual sectors across Europe.

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Digital art

Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Erasmus+

Erasmus+ is the European Commission's Programme for education, training, youth, and sport for the period 2021–2027, succeeding the previous programme (2014–2020).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evian Christ

Joshua Leary (born 11 June 1989), better known by the stage name Evian Christ, is an English electronic music producer, DJ, songwriter and performance artist from Ellesmere Port, UK.

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Eyal Weizman

Eyal Weizman MBE FBA (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect.

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Fennesz

Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is a producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited simply by his last name.

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Festival

A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures.

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Florian Hecker

Florian Hecker is a German sound and visual artist.

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Francisco López (musician)

Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard (27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.

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George Dyson (science historian)

George Dyson (born 26 March 1953) is an American non-fiction author and historian of technology whose publications broadly cover the evolution of technology in relation to the physical environment and the direction of society.

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Gerard 't Hooft

Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

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Graham Harman

Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher.

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HC Gilje

HC Gilje (born 1969) is a Norwegian artist who works with realtime environments, installations, live performance, set design and single channel video.

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Holly Herndon

Holly Herndon (born 1980) is an American artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany.

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IJ (Amsterdam)

The IJ (sometimes shown on old maps as Y or Ye) is a body of water, formerly a bay, in the Dutch province of North Holland.

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Ikue Mori

(born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer.

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Information society

An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity.

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Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.

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International Film Festival Rotterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films.

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Jananne Al-Ani

Jananne Al-Ani (born 1966) is an Irish-Iraqi artist.

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Jennifer Walshe

Jennifer Walshe (born 1 June 1974) is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist.

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JK Flesh

JK Flesh is a moniker of English musician Justin Broadrick employed for his solo work within electronic music.

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Jon Wozencroft

Jon Wozencroft (born 1 June 1958, in Epsom, England) is a graphic designer, author and instructor.

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Kara-Lis Coverdale

Kara-Lis Coverdale, also known as K-LC, is a Canadian composer, musician, producer, based in Montreal, Quebec.

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Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling is an American architect, urbanist, writer, and professor.

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Kirkenes

(Norwegian), (Northern Sami;, or is a town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsula along the Bøkfjorden, an arm of the large Varangerfjorden, and is located just a few kilometres from the Norway–Russia border.

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Krems an der Donau

Krems an der Donau is a town with 25,271 inhabitants end 2022 in Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria.

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Le1f

Khalif Libasse Diouf, known by the stage name Kalifa (born April 6, 1989), formerly known by the stage name Le1f, is an American rapper and producer.

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Maryanne Amacher

Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist.

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Mike Paradinas

Michael Robert Paradinas (born 26 September 1971), better known by his stage name μ-Ziq (pronounced "music" or mu-zik), is an English electronic musician from Wimbledon, London.

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Murmansk

Murmansk (Мурманск; Мурман ланнҍ; Muurman and Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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No Bra (band)

No Bra is musical artist Susanne Oberbeck's stage name and solo act, a NYC-based electronic musician, songwriter, performer, producer and filmmaker.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Paradiso (Amsterdam)

Paradiso is a music venue located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

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Philip Jeck

Philip Jeck (15 November 1952 – 25 March 2022) was an English composer and multimedia artist.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Plaid (band)

Plaid are an English electronic music duo composed of Andy Turner and Ed Handley.

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Raphael Bousso

Raphael Bousso (born 1971) is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

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Raster-Noton

Raster-Noton was a German electronic music record label.

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Robin Rimbaud

Robin Rimbaud (born 6 May 1964) is a British electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance.

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Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti (born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician.

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Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

The Royal Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs.

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Royal Conservatory of The Hague

The Royal Conservatoire (Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration.

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Sondra Perry

Sondra Perry is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, computer-based media, installation, and performance.

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Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940) Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Budapest and Woody Vasulka (born Bohuslav Vašulka on 20 January 1937 – 20 December 2019) are early pioneers of video art, and have been producing work since the early 1960s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Acts

, Mike Paradinas, Murmansk, Netherlands, No Bra (band), Norway, Oskar Fischinger, Oslo, Paradiso (Amsterdam), Pauline Oliveros, Philip Jeck, Physics, Plaid (band), Raphael Bousso, Raster-Noton, Robin Rimbaud, Rosi Braidotti, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Russia, Saskia Sassen, Sondra Perry, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Straub–Huillet, T. J. Demos, Terike Haapoja, The Wire (magazine), Third Law (album), Timothy Morton, Touch Music, Ulrike Ottinger, Venetian Snares, Yasunao Tone.

Sonic Acts, the Glossary

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See also

1994 establishments in the Netherlands

Art festivals in the Netherlands

Events in Amsterdam

New media art festivals

References